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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. E.A. Birge in his element, reading an anemometer of the weather data station on Green Lake. |
| Date: | 01 09 1928 |
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| Description: | Difference in paint on fences on a state highway. |
| Date: | 11 05 1911 |
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| Description: | A diver and team working to inspect the coffer dam for underwater damage caused by flooding. |
| Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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| Description: | A diver posing with other workmen at the power dam construction site prior to assessing underwater damage. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of three men using a McCormick marsh-type hand-binding harvester in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Run-down building with a stone chimney in a rural landscape. The photograph is identified as "Steele's Tavern." Cyrus McCormick successfully demonstrated h... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A mowing machine designed by Jabez Baily in yard outside a house or farm building. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Men baling hay with a hay press inside the open door of a barn. One man is weighing a bale in the foreground. Another well-dressed man appears to be a visi... |
| Date: | 09 1927 |
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| Description: | A man standing in an endgate lime spreader is using a shovel to spread lime onto a field at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. The sprea... |
| Date: | 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View from rear of a man using a Farmall tractor and a McCormick-Deering lime sower to fertilize an alfalfa field at International Harvester's Hinsdale expe... |
| Date: | 09 1929 |
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| Description: | A man is using a Farmall Regular tractor and manure spreader to spread manure across a pasture at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. |
| Date: | 03 30 1933 |
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| Description: | A man in a field holds a very large kite just prior to launching it. On the kite is painted the number 43 and "Property of the U.S. Weather Bureau." He is ... |
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